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Unless Vance, in the time remaining on his tour begins to crack some of the Middle East's hard nuts. Jimmy Carter's optimism will be heavily discounted. Administration officials already have grim forebodings; the region's leaders warn that time is running short. Sadat has said that if this is not the year for peace, hate and war will again be in terrible, senseless ascendancy," while an Israeli Cabinet minister added: "If the situation freezes again, we will face another crisis...
...manufacturers have begun to warn of massive layoffs and plant closures later this summer. "Bureaucratic brinksmanship," grouses GM Chairman Thomas Murphy. With 1977 auto sales booming and prospects good for a year-end total at or near the alltime industry record of 11.4 million in 1973, a regulatory shadow over the 1978 models could give a boost to that group of automakers who have argued all along that bigger is not necessarily better-the foreign-car manufacturers...
...every organism fights for its own survival and chance to reproduce, not that of others. Since altruistic behavior reduces an organism's chances to survive, evolution should be expected to breed it out of all species. Still, some birds risk their lives for the flock by crying out to warn of the presence of a predator?thus chancing attracting the attention of the enemy and being singled out for attack. Dolphins sometimes try to save injured dolphins from drowning. Social insects serve the entire community, some going so far as to give their lives to protect the colony from invaders...
...strolled by with three radios. "It's the night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore a Day-Glo blue riot helmet. "You grab four or five, and a hundred take their place. We come to a scene, and people who aren't looting whistle to warn the others. All we can do is chase people away from a store, and they just run to the next block, to the next store...
...helicopter buzzed over the DMZ, a unit of South Koreans, realizing it was off course, fired their rifles into the air to warn it. The shots may have confused or frightened the Chinook's pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Miles, 26, who continued to proceed across the well-marked 2.5-mile-wide DMZ into North Korea. There he landed and inspected the aircraft for damage. President Carter later related that Miles then "got back into the helicopter and took off. The North Koreans, who were approaching, apparently shot the helicopter down." Miles, Sergeant Robert Haynes, 29, and Sergeant Ronald...